This year, the museum opened Forensic Science on Trial, a temporary exhibition that explores how people influence the way ...

Widen the aperture a bit, and we can envision Earth entering a fire age comparable to the ice ages of the Pleistocene, ...

Beetles battling for mating rights, a bear stalking through the rainforest and a damselfly perched in front of a waterfall ...

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...

The papers connected to author A.A. Milne—including original drafts, illustrations, letters, poems and corrected proofs—sold ...

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...

Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children suffering from diphtheria ...

The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, ...

What do nine Hawaiian snails have in common with the Texas longhorn, the Florida panther and the California grizzly bear?

The Knickerbocker Theater disaster, which took place on this day in 1922, killed 98 moviegoers and injured another 133 ...

Bao Li and Qing Bao, both 3 years old, are the latest black-and-white bears to call the nation's capital home Meilan Solly Smithsonian Voices Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Get the ...

Made by a printer in New Hampshire, this 1776 broadside edition was created to disseminate America's founding document to the public Julia Binswanger The Englishman’s pamphlet helped spur the 13 ...